UNIC 3_5 Explore International Co-Teaching – Integrating Virtual Exchange into the University Classroom

This workshop is part of the UNIC InterTeach – professional development programme for university teachers under the theme ‘Innovative Mobility’. In this workshop you will meet university educators from partner-universities of the UNIC-Alliance, who are based in: Belgium, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

This workshop is organised in collaboration with the European University Alliance ‘Circle U’, with partners based in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, and Serbia.

In this international setting you will familiarize with Virtual Exchange as a pedagogical activity for engaging students in authentic intercultural collaborative projects with international partners.

Virtual Exchange means the engagement of students in online intercultural interaction and collaboration with students from other cultural contexts as an integrated part of their course work under the guidance of their educators. The teachers are planning a Virtual Exchange in a teaching cooperation.

The purpose is to practice how to co-plan and teach with elements of Virtual Exchange. Especially the transfer of the concept into your disciplinary teaching conventions, the integration into your course plan, the construction of tasks and the support and mentoring of your students during a Virtual Exchange is focused during the course. You will meet teachers from different universities all over Europe in this course.

Inclusion of online exchange activities in the teaching does not mean that there must be a change in the course description or curriculum.

The workshop will take place online and be held in English (lingua franca).

Attention: The workshop consists of 4 synchronous meetings of 1,5 hours as well as asynchronous preparations between each session. The meetings will be held on Mo. 03.11.2025,  Wed. 05.11.2025, Mo. 10.11.2025  and Wed. 12.11.2025  from 16.00 to 17.30.